Tor Åge Bringsværd
He has worked full-time as a writer since his debut in 1967, and he writes fiction and non-fiction for both children and adults, and has produced a broad range of novels, short-stories and essays, more than 50 playwrights and over 60 books for children. His works have been translated into 23 languages, and his plays have been staged in 14 countries.
His trademark is his great curiosity, leading him to the outskirts of the reader’s expectations, where he finds motifs from most areas of life, most cultures and indeed from the sources of myths, in particular the northern mythology and history. In 1970 Bringsværd started his writing career as science fiction author with Bazar,followed by He Who Has Both Legs on the Ground, Stands Still (Den som har begge beina på jorda står stille) 1974 offering rich doses of satire and humour. Pinnochio-papirene (The Pinnochio Papers) 1978 is an allegorical novel about good and evil, wheras Minotaurus 1980 fetches its material from the mythical Crete. In Ker Shus 1983 Bringsværd describes our world after the catastrophe. From 1985 to 1997 he published five volumes in the Gobi Series, today modern classics, in which he is delving deeply into the Eastern and Western cultures.
Bringsværd is translated into 23 languages and has been performed in 14 contries. He has been awarded numerous prizes, among them The Aschehough Prize 1979, The Critics’ Prize 1985, The Ibsen Prize 2000.
